ReviewFrontiers in oncology2024
Natural killer cell engagers for cancer immunotherapy.
Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- More tools to uncover cancer cells.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2026Article
- Engineering NKG2D ligand affinity transforms EGFR-targeted NK cell engagers into high-potency effectors against pancreatic cancer.Journal of biological engineering · 2026Article
- Targeted immunotherapies and nanomedicines for ovarian cancer: the way forward.NPJ precision oncology · 2026Review
- Induced pluripotent stem cells as platforms for engineering NK cell immunotherapies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Cytokine preactivation and ADCC: a potent strategy for enhancing human NK cell effector functions against 3D tumor models.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Dual-functioning Targeted ADAM17 Blocker CD16 (TAB16) mediates selective ADAM17 inhibition in NK cells and engages overexpressed ADAM17 in tumor cells to induce cytotoxicity.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
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- Treatment of NSCLC after chemoimmunotherapy - are we making headway?Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Antitumor Immunity: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.MedComm · 2025Review
- The impact of neddylation on prognosis in the immune microenvironment of neuroblastoma: a single-cell transcriptomic analysis.Immunologic research · 2025Article
- Fragment-Based Immune Cell Engager Antibodies in Treatment of Cancer, Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases: Lessons and Insights from Clinical and Translational Studies.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- [Current status of research on the impairment of natural killer cell function caused by hepatitis B virus infection].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2025Review
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Abstract
This review article explores the rapidly evolving field of bi-, tri-, and multi-specific NK cell engagers (NKCEs), highlighting their potential as a cutting-edge approach in cancer immunotherapy. NKCEs offer a significant advancement over conventional monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by enhancing Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity (ADCC). They achieve this by stably and selectively binding to both NK cell activating receptors and tumor-associated antigens (TAAs). Unlike traditional mAbs, which depend on the relatively transient interaction between their Fc region and CD16a, NKCEs establish more robust connections with a range of activating receptors (e.g., CD16a, NKG2D, NKp30, NKp46, NKG2C) and inhibitory receptors (e.g., Siglec-7) on NK cells, thereby increasing cancer cell killing efficacy and specificity. This review article critically examines the strategies for engineering bi-, tri-, and multi-specific NKCEs for cancer immunotherapy, providing an in-depth analysis of the latest advancements in NKCE platform technologies currently under development by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and discussing the preclinical and clinical progress of these products. While NKCEs show great promise, the review underscores the need for continued research to optimize their therapeutic efficacy and to overcome obstacles related to NK cell functionality in cancer patients. Ultimately, this article presents an overview of the current landscape and future prospects of NKCE-based cancer immunotherapy, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize cancer treatment.
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